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If you were to think back to before the pandemic, how would you describe the mode of teaching and study most reflective of what happens in our universities? At the risk of adding to the terminology around modality - I’d describe it as digitally-facilitated - in that the experience was not one in which digital technologies were omitted, but one in which they played a largely supplementary role.
Now though, we’re led to believe that the new model for universities going forward will entail digital technologies playing a much bigger role in the experience.
This, in fact, has long been the aspiration of many UK universities. You just have to read strategy documents published prior to the pandemic to see that clearly stated in print. But it would be hard to argue that those aspirations were met prior to the pandemic.
The model that prevailed was one in which the educational experience was strongly weighted towards the campus rather than equally shared with digital technologies. So this begs the question - has the pandemic really fast-forwarded universities to a long-desired state?
One of the first questions you could pose by way of seeking to answer this - is do universities have the digital technology necessary to support such a change of model?
